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Originally Posted by 1487
I'm not sure the average councilperson is savvy enough to think that far ahead. think the revised code was a compromise on many fronts and thus no one got everything they wanted.
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I think you are right - the revised code was a compromise on many fronts and thus no one got everything they wanted.
But I do think the council people (particularly Clarke and Blackwell), no matter how stupid or otherwise lacking in savvy,
all have blood-hound like ability to identify what threatens their hold on power. A reasonable zoning code threatens their power, obviously, so they did what they could to limit the reform to retain as much power as they could in zoning matters. And in this case their interests are highly aligned with NIMBYs, so I suspect they forced a lot of compromise in the direction of under-zoning.
Basically, I think what you wrote and I wrote are not contradictory.